Tie for pie and similar plates.



H. E. SIMMONS.

TIE FOR PIE AND SIMILAR PLATES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 7, 1915.

1,1 88,209. Patented June 20, 1916.

WITNESSES 3 5 I/VVE/VTOI? L. r v @2240; L6 5'55; mmon 2/591 ATTORNEYS HOWARD EARL SIMMONS, 0F MARION, INDIANA.

TIE FOR PIEYAND SIMILAR PLATES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 20, 1916.

Application filed May 7, 1915. Serial No. 26,526.

and Improved Tie for Pie and Similar Plates, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention has for its object to provide an economical tie for pie, cake, icecream, butter, egg-tray, picnic, social, demonstrating and similar plates and pans.

The tie consists ofgummed strips which are disposed transversely around a group of plates, the tie strips beingaflixed to the end plates and to a wrapper which is disposed around the edges of the plates. The edges of this wrapper are. athered at the edges of the end plates an are held in position by the strips which are affixed thereto to provide rounded and cushioned corners which will prevent the edges of the plates from cutting the strips.

Additional objects of the invention will appear in the following specification in which-the preferred form of my invention is disclosed.

In the drawings similar reference characters refer to similar parts in" all the views in-which Figure 1 is a plan view showing a grou and Fig. 3 is a view showinghow the wrapper is wound around the edges of the group of plates.

By referring to the drawings it will be seen that the pie plates are disposed one over the other-to form a group A, and a wrapper B is wound around the edges of the said group of pie plates A, this'wrapper extending beyond the end pie plates C and D and being rolled, coiled or otherwise gathered at the edges of the said end plates C and D, this all being clearly illustrated in Fig. 2 of the drawings. i

Th'ewrapper B is held in position around the edges of the group of pie plates A and the pie plates forming the group A are held together by having the wrapper edges rolled or gathered at the edges of the said end 1 Patent:

plates C and D. The parts of the wrapper B may also be glued together to hold. the wrapper snugly around the grou of plates A. I also .prefer touse' strips these tie strips G being preferably two in number and being disposed transversely around the wrapper Band the group ofpie plates A. The tie strips 'G are gummed so that they are aflixed to the wrapper B, to the rolled or gathered edges E of the wrapper and to the end pie plates C and D, the rolled or gathered edges E ofthe wrapper B forming rounded and cushioned corners to prevent the edges of the end pie plates C and G are affixed together.

When plates are bound together in the manner stated they are not damaged, as is the case'when rope 01' twine is used. Rope or twine disfigures crimps and mars the first five or six plates at each end of the package and it also has a tendency to spoil the shape of all of the plates in the packager Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and'desire to secure by Letters 1. In combination with a group of plates,

a wrapper disposed around the edges of the plates and extending therebeyond, and being gathered at the edges of the end plates of the group of plates, and a gummed strip and to the end plates in the group.

'or, strips disposed transversely around the group of plates and affixed to the wrapper ,2. In combination with a group of plates,

a wrapper disposed around the edges of the In testimony whereof ,I have signed myname to this specification in the presence of the two subscribing witnesses.

HOWARD EARL SIMMONS. Witnesses:

' GUY WALTERMIRE,

BERTHA L. BRADFORD. 

